Spiritual Direction

Q. What is Spiritual Direction?

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Spiritual direction is an opportunity for you to sit with a guide and reflect on your daily life experiences. The guide helps you to explore your inner life and deepen your relationship with God/Spirit/Divine. The session usually lasts for 50 minutes.

At Gembrook Retreat you can book in for spiritual direction with our long-time resident Jane Hope. This can be done as a one-off, or as regular monthly sessions. You may also like to have a spiritual direction session while you are on retreat in the Cabin, or during a Day Retreat. This way you can accompany your session with time to reflect on the land, or join us for our daily prayers at 10am or 6pm.

Jane is a qualified spiritual director/companion through the Wellspring Centre. While Jane herself is a Christian Quaker, she welcomes anyone to her spiritual direction sessions whether you have a particular spiritual practice or not.

“Jane waited and journeyed with me to process some stuckness in me. She was so gentle and such a good listener.” Irene

“Highly recommend Jane as a spiritual director - she is warm, relaxed, down to earth and non-judgmental. As someone new to spiritual direction and companionship - I found her very supportive in helping me find my own words and language for my experiences and to listen to them more deeply.” Claire

Sliding scale fee: $30/$45/$60/$75/$100 per session

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